Burlington Northern NW2 451 switching at Grand Forks, ND August 1970. The 451 was built in March 1939 as Great Northern 5303 and was renumbered to GN 103 in 1943. This NW2 was retired in April 198... (more)

Burlington Northern SD24 6242 is spotted by the sand tower at Grand Forks ND April 1970. The 6242 was built in May 1959 as CB&Q 502 and retired in June 1982 and traded in to General Electric. This... (more)

Burlington Northern F7A 640 and SD7 6022 running through the wash rack at Grand Forks August 1970. Richard Vartebedian Photo from my Collection.

Burlington Northern GP20 2008 resting at the Grand Forks roundhouse October 1970. The 2008 was built in April 1960 as GN 2008 and was eventually sold to Zeigler Cat and rebuilt into a GP20C. The G... (more)

CEFX 3106 at Grand Forks, ND.

A shiny geep leads the way as the inbound South Local passes under Interstate 29 and splits the signals guarding the namesake switch.

GATX 1238 departs Grand Forks, ND in May of 1990. GATX 1238 was originally built for Reserve Mining in Northern Minnesota.

The train was the Western Star. The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

The South Local's crew members while they wait for traffic to clear off of the Hillsboro subdivision.

Bakken crude oil empties round the curve from the Hillsboro to the Devils Lake subdivision behind a quartet of mixed GE power.

A pair of Snow Dozers in the Grand Forks yard. BN 972501 on the left has a build date on it of 5-70, while BN 972510 on the right says 7-57 and has some green showing through on the spreader and c... (more)

After getting held up in Emerado due to track work and waiting for a warrant around more track work at Buxton, this BNSF oil train is once again on the move. A pair of SD70Macs and a fellow GE st... (more)

Behind a pair of NS units a ratty BNSF GE, a long string of flashy new oil tanks pull through Grand Forks with Bakken crude in tow. The tank cars, which were built approximately a month and a half... (more)

A matching trio of former Iowa Interstate Railroad GP38-2s leads a manifest freight around the east leg of the wye and eastward toward the yard in Grand Forks.

The Empire Builder arrives into the Grand Forks station past the "West Grand Forks" station sign 11 hours, 41 minutes late greeted by passengers exclaiming their relief! The train original... (more)